The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ The plant is the Kentrophyllum lanatum, a native of the countries around the Mediterranean seas. It is a weed, which will readily spread, but it is under ordinary circumstances an annual. If, there...

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87.12.00a

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Kentrophyllum lanatum
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Gorrie, 1887-12 [87.12.00a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1880-9/1887/87-12-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see Donald times (Vic), 16 December 1887, p. 2 (B87.12.03). The Thistle Inspector for the St Arnaud Shire Council submitted a specimen of a thistle-like plant to the Council and recommended that M's opinion on it be obtained. The Council instructed their Secretary to write to M, from whom the above reply was received.

The plant is the , a native of the countries around the Mediterranean seas. It is a weed, which will readily spread, but it is under ordinary circumstances an annual. If, therefore, it is pulled or cut when well advanced, but before it commences to form seeds the plant will become annihilated. But the cut or pulled plants must at once be heaped together and burnt, otherwise they may still ripen and shed their seeds.